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re: Your go-to meal when you were a student at AU

Posted on 8/10/23 at 10:35 am to
Posted by Luke
1113 Chartres Street, NOLA
Member since Nov 2004
13596 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 10:35 am to
It has went downhill bigly
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
35722 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 10:38 am to
-Monday All you can eat Spaghetti & meatballs and Brick Oven
-Taco Tuesday @ Bodega/Bank Vault
-Thursday all you can eat wings at Buffalo Connection followed by trivia at Bodega/Bank Vault to win free tacos for the next week

Cancun - Molcejeta Azteca bowl
Naruto hibahci bowls
Fine Garden
Little Italy

Posted by Warrior Court
Atlanta
Member since Apr 2022
2089 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 10:40 am to
mid-90s

we lived behind Gabby's which became Tiger Time and then became something else so a lot of diner food.

they built the Papa John's close by the railroad tracks while we were there and their pizzas were ridiculously cheap, like $4.99 or $6.99. over the next few years, they locked in the original price for us because we called for takeout so much.

I worked at the Flush and Provino's so lots of free meals while I was working.

definitely Checkers because it was so cheap - maybe the first time I had ever eaten at a Checkers before.

and Niffer's 99 cents burger night was Thursdays, I think.

good memories.
Posted by AUFanInSoCal
Orange County
Member since Nov 2007
1616 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 10:57 am to
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I almost lived off the turkey hoagies at the kitchen at CDV Ext.


Same here.
Posted by Jmcc64
alabama
Member since Apr 2021
906 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 11:15 am to
turkey with provolone. mag deli. freshman year.
Posted by borotiger
Murfreesboro Tennessee
Member since Jan 2004
11223 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 11:24 am to
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Food quality.


That sad. Steamed subs are not rocket surgery.
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
35722 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 11:25 am to
The original one is still fine. A lot of their franchised locations are awful though. The one in Homewood still does a decent job.
Posted by plazadweller
South Georgia
Member since Jul 2011
11540 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 11:33 am to
Niffers
Mike & Ed’s
Barbecue House for breakfast
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 11:34 am
Posted by Cocotheape
Member since Aug 2015
4024 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 11:38 am to
Chick fil a, large fry and large drink, use coupon that the university bookstore passed out at the beginning of a semester for free sandwich. Large combo for $3.25 or so, at the time.

I stockpiled those coupons (came in little books with other coupons that I never used). I think we took a whole box of them one time.

ETA: this was the West Mag CFA, the old one.

We also did the strutting duck for trivia a good bit, once it moved downtown to the former Olde Auburn Ale House location. Win a free burger and fries, $1 PBR, good times.

Other places I remember: Hibachi express $4 hibachi chicken bowl, Creole Shack burger po’boy. Tino’s Mexican out on Opelika Road. Whispering Oaks buffet out in Opelika. Buffalo Connection. “College special” at Moe’s (burritos). Little Italy slices & $1.25 PBRs.

Momma G’s was also good when I started college, before the franchises and all that. It was all downhill when they pulled the pool tables out of the original location, and put up TVs inside.
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 11:50 am
Posted by TemperdTiger
Montgomery, AL
Member since Oct 2013
1961 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 12:37 pm to
Damn I forgot about Checkers, Willies, and Niffers
Posted by Sea Hoss
North Alabama
Member since Jul 2013
914 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 1:15 pm to
Thursday night burger special at Niffers
Mandarin House lunch buffet
Tuesday was Country's BBQ 2 for $12 Chef's salad
Posted by AUHighPlainsDrifter
South Carolina
Member since Sep 2017
3154 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:16 pm to
-69 cent chicken Italians
-Arby's 5 for $5
-10 cent wings at Niffer's
-Taco salads and pizza subs from The Kitchen
-Lots of Hamburger Helper
-Free shrimp that my roommate brought back from the coast after breaks
-$1 sausage biscuits from McD's
-Food from the grocery store
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 2:18 pm
Posted by AUHighPlainsDrifter
South Carolina
Member since Sep 2017
3154 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:24 pm to
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My senior year I was the night manager at Little Ceasars so I remember a lot of pizza nights.


When was that? I delivered for the Opelika location. I took home quite a few free pies at the end of my shift. Got sick of eating them, but would still take one home and trade it for beer with my roommates or neighbors.
Posted by Warrior Court
Atlanta
Member since Apr 2022
2089 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:26 pm to
the free shrimp reminded me...we ate a lot of fricking venison. I think I ate enough deer in 5 years at Auburn to last a lifetime.
Posted by AUHighPlainsDrifter
South Carolina
Member since Sep 2017
3154 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:27 pm to
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Split a lot of cici’s pizza


The CiCi's buffet was $2.99 when I was in school. You really couldn't beat it for the price, but that quality wasn't hard to beat. It'd definitely keep you "regular".
Posted by TheDude854
Member since May 2019
333 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:34 pm to
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I almost lived off the turkey hoagies at the kitchen at CDV Ext.


My freshman year, I hit that deli about 3x a week. Would get the Lupton Special.

Once I was living off campus, my go-to’s were Rooster’s, Wall St Deli, Momma G’s, Pita Pit, Buffalo Connection, among others
Posted by AUHighPlainsDrifter
South Carolina
Member since Sep 2017
3154 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 2:44 pm to
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we ate a lot of fricking venison


Not a hunter myself, but had several roommates and friends that were so I ate plenty of that too. I think the best thing I had was when a buddy made jerky with some tenderloins on his smoker. It was fantastic.

Another that I just thought of was the one topping large pizzas that Papa John's sold for $4.75. That was around '94 or so. I ate too many of them. I had friend that ordered them regularly and never threw away the boxes. He just stacked them in the corner of his little one bedroom apartment. Stacked them all the way to the ceiling and had started another stack when his mom visited and freaked out about it.
Posted by SupperClubDrunkBus
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Member since Jun 2023
1613 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 3:55 pm to
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.we ate a lot of fricking venison.


We weren’t hunters, by me & my crew loved fish’in.

My last two years, me & my roommates (that are now lifelong good friends) went in on a “Fry-Daddy”.

We fried the hell out of SO many bream, shellcracker, catfish and bass in those couple of years.

It was the BEST investment 3 dudes on skimpy college budgets could have hoped for.

We wore that Fry-Daddy the frick out on a regular basis. And it just kept on going… turning out golden, flakey, crispy filets like nobody’s business.
Posted by AUHighPlainsDrifter
South Carolina
Member since Sep 2017
3154 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 4:27 pm to
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We wore that Fry-Daddy the frick out on a regular basis. And it just kept on going… turning out golden, flakey, crispy filets like nobody’s business.


I had an original Fry Daddy that my mom gave me. My roommate in '95/'96 was a graduate student in Fisheries. Each of the grad students were given a 1 acre pond to grow tilapia in. We used to have fish fries on the regular. It was good fish too....not the bullshite tilapia you find in the grocery stores that has been raised in China or Guatemala on a diet of pig shite.

I also knew this dude who had an uncle that had a small catfish farm outside of Montgomery. If we wanted some catfish we'd just put one of the pellets that the fish were used to eating on the hook, drop it in the pond and BAM! Dinner caught in under 10 seconds. It wasn't exactly what I'd call fishing, but it was damn good eating!
Posted by tgrmeat
Member since Sep 2020
4616 posts
Posted on 8/10/23 at 4:31 pm to
Chicken Italians at Finleys and All-you-can-eat wings at Ryans. Loved Barbecue House too.
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